In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1)
Tana French
Fiction F889i
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers
begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three
children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police
arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in
terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single
detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob
Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a
secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same
woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest
friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the
previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried
memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery
of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.
Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end,
In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones. And look for French's new mystery,
Broken Harbor, for more of the Dublin Murder Squad.
(from publisher)
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2)
Tana French
Fiction F889l
Six months after the events of In the Woods,
an urgent telephone call beckons detective Cassie Maddox to a grisly
crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID
identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used.
Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more
importantly, who she is. A disturbing tale of shifting identities, The Likeness firmly establishes Tana French as an important voice in suspense fiction.
(from publisher)
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
Tana French
Fiction F889f
Back in 1985, Frank
Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city, and living
crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But he had
his sights set on a lot more. He and Rosie Daly were all ready to run
away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from
factory work and poverty and their old lives.
But on the winter
night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it
for granted that she'd dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic
father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never
went home again.
Neither did Rosie. Everyone thought she had
gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life.
Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a
fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home
whether he likes it or not.
Getting sucked in is a lot easier
than getting out again. Frank finds himself straight back in the dark
tangle of relationships he left behind. The cops working the case want
him out of the way, in case loyalty to his family and community makes
him a liability. Faithful Place wants him out because he's a detective
now, and the Place has never liked cops. Frank just wants to find out
what happened to Rosie Daly-and he's willing to do whatever it takes, to
himself or anyone else, to get the job done.
(from publisher)
Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4)
Tana French
Fiction F889b
In Broken Harbour,
a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited,
half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead. The mother is
on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because
he is the Murder Squad’s star detective. At first he and his rookie
partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of
the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny,
and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable
details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once.
Scorcher’s
personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news
has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she’s resurrecting
something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what
happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they
were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and
the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk . . .
(from publisher)
The Secret Place
Tana French
Fiction F889s
The photo on the card
shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a
girls’ boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says,
I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.
Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting
for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin’s Murder Squad—and
one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. The
Secret Place, a board where the girls at St. Kilda’s School can pin up
their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert
cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled
investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen
joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out
who and why.
But everything they discover leads them back to
Holly’s close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival
clique—and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls
to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure.
Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen’s links to the Mackey
family. St. Kilda’s will go a long way to keep murder outside their
walls. Holly’s father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to
pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the
private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more
dangerous than either of the detectives imagined.
(from publisher)
